Definitely A Happy Fourth

So yesterday when I returned from celebrating the 4^th of July in Kumasi, I came to my home to find out that I now have electricity! Sort of. My family has built a shop in our house and they needed to put in a generator to sell meat in a freezer. So now they turn it on for a while once a day, and I can charge everything! I am so ecstatic it is not even expressible. My room has been wired for electricity since I got here, ready and waiting for the government to bring power to our village. With the way it is hooked up with the generator I now have light in my room and all the outlets in my room work. I am still in disbelief a little. I guess this means I can’t impress Ghanaians I meet on the road by telling them I stay at a place with “no light” as they call it here.

For the holiday I got together with other volunteers and we made hamburgers, corndogs, fruit salad, cole slaw and guacamole. It was quite fun. We also had a dance party and some of us may have been standing on tables to dance. :)

Im keeping this one short, but I will definitely be updating more now that I can use my computer more often and with more convenience.